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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Technical_Shirt5078 on 2023-08-11 16:58:44.

I absolutely cannot stand how weird and soulless Corporate America is.

The office politics ✅

The self-important people (fyi - nobody knows or cares who you are when you leave the building) ✅

Pointless meetings ✅

The passive-aggressive pressure applied by executives ✅

Being looked at weird for leaving before 5 PM ✅

It all feels so pointless and silly. Waking up every day, going into an office to play this corporate game. Feeling stressed, losing sleep, having no energy left for myself. All of this for what? To make the executives and the investors happy and richer?

Ohhh my one day I’ll get a promotion! And a new fancy title! 🤮

What’s weird is, the last few years of my life I have been that company guy! First to get into the office, last to leave! I used to scoff at people who came in later or left early. I thought I wanted to climb the corporate ladder and I was well on my way. I got promoted multiple times, got some fancy titles, and some pay raises. To do this, I worked long hours, checked emails after work, worked on the weekends, and traveled all over the country. I felt so important and cool. Meanwhile in the background I wasn’t eating great, losing sleep, feeling irritable, and depressed.

I am still in this job, but I have decided that I am resigning shortly and will be going back to school to become a teacher. No job is going to perfect, but I want my life back and I want to do something meaningful. I don’t want my life’s purpose to be making some big company a profit and adding to the CEOs collection of exotic cars. I don’t want to talk about spreadsheets or sales numbers. I don’t want to sit in another stupid strategy meeting or be talked down to by a client. I don’t want to work for another incompetent boss with an out of control ego.

That’s my rant.